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The nation?s most inaccurate murder prosecutor redux

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

A few days ago in this post, I talked about arguably the lamest prosecutor in the nation, District Attorney Forrest Allgood whose district covers Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee, and Oktibbeha counties. In the litany of cases I missed an important one, a capital exoneration, that of Sabrina Butle: Allgood was also the prosecutor in the case of Sabrina Butler, an 18-year-old, borderline retarded woman convicted and sentenced to death for killing her infant son. The state supreme court threw out the conviction after Allgood illegally suggested to the jury that they could infer Butler?s guilt from the fact that she didn?t testify in her own defense. After six years on death row, Butler was retried and acquitted. Here?s a surprise: A bad autopsy report was in part blamed for her conviction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 04, 2008 (boomark / email).